Enterprise Open Source News Desk trawls the fast-growing world of Professional Open Source for business-relevant items of news, opinion, and insight.
Funambol, a provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions of phones, today announced it has acquired Zapatec, Inc., a leader of AJAX web 2.0 frameworks. The acquisition enables Funambol to uniquely address the industry pervasive device fragmentation challenge th...Nov. 4, 2009 07:01 AM EST Reads: 936
Convio today announced expansion of its Open Platform which is helping nonprofit organizations tap the power of technology and the Internet to better reach, engage and move people to support their cause. The company is introducing Convio Web Services, a new set of standard interfaces f...
DataSync, a provider of integrated small business software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, and SugarCRM, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, have announced a strategic partnership to deliver an integrated suite of small...
Keynote Systems, a provider of on-demand mobile and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience, today announced Version 3.0 of KITE (Keynote Internet Testing Environment). KITE 3.0 is Keynote’s free desktop tool for real time testing, diagnos...
As open source development expands and deepens its innovative capabilities, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, by Red Hat, continues to deliver enterprise-class alternatives to expensive, cumbersome proprietary solutions at additional levels of the software stack. These go beyond the applica...
As open source development expands and deepens its innovative capabilities, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, by Red Hat, continues to deliver enterprise-class alternatives to expensive, cumbersome proprietary solutions at additional levels of the software stack. These go beyond the applica...
This white paper from Univa UD presents an evolutionary approach to cloud computing within a high-performance computing (HPC) context. The paper addresses the seamless and incremental process of moving from private/internal to public/external clouds, the realistic use cases, and the qu...
This white paper explains how the Actuate platform enables IT, business users and consumers to work together to continuously evolve reports by sharing report designs and engaging in iterative report development, as well as how to empower users to easily create and modify their own inte...
This report finds that Open Source has become the hidden backbone of the software industry, and leads to a paradigm change in enterprise IT.
This white paper from Univa UD discusses how distributed computing delivers dramatic cost savings, as well as Green IT benefits, by leveraging existing resources and curbing data center growth.
In this white paper from Univa UD, find out how a leading Pharma switched from their legacy scheduler to Univa UD’s UniCluster environment – and saved 80% on cluster costs.
Bluenog has announced that NYU Langone Medical Center has deployed the portal development and enterprise components of its flagship product, Bluenog ICE. NYU Langone Medical Center is one of the nation's premier academic medical centers. NYU Langone is using Bluenog ICE to develop and ...
This guide from thawte will help you understand SSL certificates, how they operate and their application. By making use of an SSL certificate on your web server, you can securely collect sensitive information online, and increase business by giving your customers confidence that their ...
In this white paper from thawte, learn about how digital certificates with SGC technology are able to step up encryption levels for certain browsers to 128-bits. A discussion of the business benefits of deploying SGC certificates is also included. 
Learn how you can build customer confidence around Internet security. This guide from thawte will explain the various ways in which your business can benefit if you secure your Microsoft Internet Information Services (MSIIS) web server with a Thawte digital certificate.
Extended Validation SSL delivers the acknowledged industry standard for the highest level of online identity assurance processes for SSL certificate issuance. In this white paper from thawte, find out how the EV standard increases the visibility of authentication status through the use...
This guide from thawte will show you how Code Signing Certificates are used to secure code that can be downloaded from the Internet. You will also learn how these certificates operate with different software platforms. 
This guide from thawte examines the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate. This guide also looks at how SSL works, how it benefits your company and how your customers can tell if a site is secure. 
Join us for the Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference 2009 on March 26–March 27, 2009, at the Philadelphia Marriot West. This annual conference sponsored by Chariot Solutions drew an overflow audience in 2008 and returns in 2009 with expanded content for both a technical ...
Funambol and a la Mobile announced the availability of enhanced open source sync software for Android. a la Mobile has extended Funambol's SyncML-based Android client to sync additional PIM data, pictures, music and videos. Furthermore, a la Mobile is contributing the enhanced Android ...
Open-Xchange announced a feature update for the Open-Xchange Server 6 product family adding support for Dutch and Spanish languages. The Service Pack 5 update for Open-Xchange Server 6 provides users with new features as well as the additional language support - added to existing suppo...
The Mono Project, an open-source initiative sponsored by Novell, announced the availability of Moonlight 1.0, an open source project that provides Linux users access to Microsoft Silverlight content. According to the company, Moonlight provides the platform Linux users need to use Silv...
Red Hat announced the global availability of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting and portal based applications and rich web presences. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 maintains its focus on enterprise needs with ...
Sun Microsystems announced the release of Sun GlassFish Portfolio, the open source Web platform based on GlassFish. Built on open source projects including Apache Tomcat, Ruby, PHP, Liferay Portal and GlassFish, the Sun GlassFish Portfolio packages these components into an open source ...
Open source software development in Russia is one of the most important directives for Igor Schegolev - the Head of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation. Schegolev met with Werner Knoblich, Red Hat Vice President for EMEA at the Ministry...
Ironic Software has released OpenMeta, a new open sourced standard for metadata on OS X. OpenMeta, working with established OS X technologies, ushers in a new wave of standards based document management solutions. These solutions can scale from single laptops through to large organizat...
What is Windows Embedded? Windows Embedded is a family of operating systems that offer familiar tools and technologies for developers to bring the next generation of smart, connected, service-oriented devices to market. Windows Embedded features enable interoperability with industry st...
Find out how a leading Pharma switched from their legacy scheduler to Univa UD’s UniCluster environment – and saved 80% on cluster costs in this Unvia Case Study. Click here to view Univa’s Case Study now!
Red Hat announced that CQUniversity, an Australian university with ten campuses and more than 21,00 students and staff, has migrated its critical IT systems to Red Hat solutions. CQUniversity offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on-campus and through distance e...
Ulitzer will be launching 6,000 new author sites for the leading technology authors and software industry rock stars. Ulitzer.com is also open for new authors who would like to be published on any topic. Authors can submit their bio and articles for consideration using the pre-beta pag...
OPERA, the Open PLC European Research Alliance for a new generation of Powerline Communications integrated network technology, has announced that all its targets have been achieved and the Project is ready for its final review by the European Commission experts. This achievement puts a...
Find out how Pathwork Diagnostics leveraged UniCloud to meet peak processing needs – saving on CAPEX and OPEX while increasing the capacity to innovate. Click here to view Univa’s Case Study now!
Alfresco Software announced the general availability of Alfresco Labs 3 Stable. “This release is designed to be the open source content services platform for all Alfresco and non-Alfresco content applications from document management and web content management to wikis,” said John Newt...
Fortify Software announced that it achieved record growth in Q4 2008, finishing a strong fiscal year 2008 with the largest quarter in company history. Most notably, Fortify increased its bookings in Q4 2008 80% over Q4 2007. The company attributes its success to new business growth in ...
Vyatta announced that it grew revenues by almost 600 percent during 2008, with their customer count growing more than 150 percent. To date, the company's open networking software has been downloaded more than a quarter million times. The company additionally boasts partnerships with mo...
The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) announced the results of its 2009 Predictions Survey, which polls high-ranking open source business executives on their forecasts for the year ahead. The OSA survey results point to new opportunities and challenges for the commercial open source softwa...
DSS announced it will open source the code for its vxVistA electronic health record (EHR) framework, providing their version of VistA under a commercially-friendly open source license that can be used to unite the VistA community. Mark Byers, president and CEO of DSS, said “vxVistA is ...
Focusing on an evolving business environment in which mobile warriors and entrepreneurs need to improve efficiencies in the workplace and stay connected while on the go, Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, (TAIS), announced a ne...
